April Harden and Danny Roach admitted early on that they saw and helped Vance after he shot two police officers and killed two family members, and they told investigators that Reginald Moore also supplied Vance with an AK-47.

“Kind of makes your heart sink,” he told News 9 two days later, “Our dispatch called me and that’s the first thing said, ‘Man, you need to get to that location.’”

Vance fled the scene, with a bullet wound of his own, shot a woman and stole her car. By the time police found the car in Luther, Vance had killed his family members Ron and Kay Wilkson, and stolen their car.

April Harden and Danny Roach told investigators Vance then showed up to their home, where they bandaged his wound and gave him another gun and more ammo. Then they called Reginald Moore to bring over an AK-47.

Vance disappeared for a week after that, but on the night of Oct. 30, 2016, Dewey County Sheriff Clay Sander pulled him over in a stolen truck. Vance shot the sheriff twice.